Thanks to everyone who participated in September's Programming Contest! The theme of this month's contest was "Futuristic Tech," and entrants were invited to create projects that showed technologies of the future! From "pens of the future," to intergalactic sonic ships, these inventions spanned an impressive array of coders' futuristic visions!

Below are the winning entries, along with judging rationale from the Challenge Council. Congratulations to everyone for their hard work, creativity, and enthusiasm!

Why we chose this program: This program's use of 3D objects was very creative and interesting. The renderings are done on the 2D canvas using a transformation engine, which is nicely done. The lights in the portal are creative, and the ability to rotate the model is a nice touch.

Why we chose this program: This program includes lots of user interactivity. The ability to customize the different properties of the pen is very cool! This is overall a very neat interpretation of futuristic tech.

Intermediate Bracket

Why we chose this program: The program contains an interesting background story with lots of information, and provides interesting thoughts about what motivates futuristic tech. The game aspect of this program was also well done.

Why we chose this program: The animations of this program are very clean and sleek, which give the program a very nice visual appeal. The simplistic and minimalistic design fits very nicely with the topic, and looks very nice!

Beginner Bracket

Why we chose this program: The robot has a creative design and interesting features, and the simple bobbing animation works very well in this program! The program provokes thoughts on the many uses of robots in the future.